"Hell, Purgatory, Paradise exist within us, a secret, fearsome human Trinity, and all of Dante's song is the ascetic, painful ascent from beast to God. Every person has all the sins within them and all the possibilities to fight and subjugate them, and all the hopes, as they climb from sphere to sphere, that is from achievement to achievement, to unite with God. Damned, Fighter, Redeemed, these are the three levels of the perfect human. If one of these three is missing – especially that of the Damned – man is wretched.

The Divine Comedy by Nikos Kazantzakis is a deeply philosophical work that transcends the boundaries of religion and metaphysics, becoming a hymn to the human quest and the eternal struggle for knowledge and freedom. With a bold style, intense lyricism, and philosophical introspection, Kazantzakis does not follow Dante's path, but creates his own, offering a new version of the posthumous wandering.